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Barrington owner-breeder Jim Tafel and trainer Carl Nafzger have decided not to send Kentucky Derby winner and Preakness runner-up Street Sense to the Belmont on June 9. Nafzger said Thursday their plans call for Street Sense to be pointed for the Travers at Saratoga on Aug. 25 and the Breeders' Cup Classic at Monmouth Park on Oct. 27. The July 29 Jim Dandy at Saratoga and the Aug. 5 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth are being considered as...

Street Sense wasn't streetwise. The Kentucky Derby winner came between horses to seize the lead in the upper stretch and drew clear, but then he lost his focus, leaving himself vulnerable to the sneak attack that enabled Curlin to win Saturday's 132nd running of the Preakness with a bob of a head at the wire. "I thought we were home free when I got by Hard Spun (the leader) turning for home," Street Sense's jockey, Calvin Borel, said. "I thought Curlin was finished when I went up on the inside of him. "But things happen.

BY ANDREW BEYER. Andrew Beyer is the horse racing columnist for the Washington Post | May 20, 2007

The Kentucky Derby left no doubt about the identity of the top 3-year-old in America. Street Sense, the champion of his generation last season, confirmed his status by soundly defeating his 19 rivals at Churchill Downs. He will be a strong favorite to win the Preakness. Yet many serious handicappers, myself included, will be very wary of betting Street Sense at Pimlico, even though the field is smaller and weaker than the one he trounced two weeks ago. In fact, he is the type of favorite that gamblers love to bet against.

Three races before he guided Curlin to victory in Saturday's Preakness, jockey Robby Albarado was picking himself off the Pimlico grass course and counting his lucky stars after being unseated by Einstein in the Dixie Stakes. Front-running Mending Fences broke down nearing the far turn, sending his jockey, Eddie Castro, to the turf. Einstein leaped to avoid the fallen jockey and Albarado also went down. "I lost my balance because I didn't know which way he was going to go," Albarado said.

The Tribune's Teddy Greenstein on what's worth tuning into this weekend. White Sox at Cubs 2:55 P.M. SATURDAY, FOX Raise your hand if you thought Joe Girardi would fill out the Cubs' lineup for this one. OK, Joe, you can take it down now. Girardi will call the game alongside Kenny Albert. 132nd Preakness Stakes 4 P.M. SATURDAY, NBC Did you have the good sense to pick Street Sense in the Derby? White Sox at Cubs 1:20 P.M. SUNDAY, WGN, CSN You might need be able to purchase beer on Sunday morning, but you can imbibe the ultimate Bud Man. CSN debuts the documentary "Hello Again Everybody": The Harry Caray Story at 11 a.m.

Standing in front of the Pimlico barn housing his Preakness candidate, Flying First Class, D. Wayne Lukas looked back to the first Saturday of May in 1977. His mind's eye took him across the country to fleabag accommodations in San Mateo, Calif. "We were in a cheap motel, just across the street from Bay Meadows Race Track, my buddies Bobby Adair and John Wells and myself, watching the Kentucky Derby," the Hall of Fame trainer recalled Friday. "I was in the quarter horse business and didn't even have a thoroughbred in training.

It should come as no surprise to see the computer picked the Derby winner on top in the Preakness, but frankly by a smaller margin than I expected. He got a nice class boost from the Kentucky Derby, but HARD SPUN emerges with a solid speed advantage. Of the new contenders, my computer likes KING OF THE ROXY, based primarily on his class. I will box STREET SENSE, CURLIN, CIRCULAR QUAY and CP WEST in my exacta. I will wheel Street Sense over Curlin, Hard Spun, CP West and Circular Quay in my trifecta.

1. White Sox at Cubs, 1:20 p.m. Friday, WGN-Ch. 9 (Cubs announcers), Comcast SportsNet (Sox crew): If starter Mark Buehrle shows up a little late to Wrigley Field on Friday, this could be why: CSN will replay his April 18 no-hitter at 9:30 a.m. Like "Titanic," we're pretty sure we know how it ends. 2. White Sox at Cubs, 2:55 p.m. Saturday, WFLD-Ch. 32: Raise your hand if you thought Joe Girardi would fill out the Cubs' lineup for this one. OK, Joe, you can take it down now. Girardi will call the game alongside Kenny Albert.

When Street Sense won the Kentucky Derby for Barrington owner-breeder Jim Tafel, it was the horse racing equivalent of Southern Illinois winning the NCAA tournament. If Street Sense takes Tafel back to the winner's circle in Saturday's Preakness and in the June 9 Belmont to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978 it will be tantamount to that school becoming a college basketball dynasty. Tafel is a man of means. But by no means is he in the same financial league as super-rich owners such as the Maktoum brothers from the Persian Gulf Emirate of Dubai, Ogden Mills Phipps and Frank Stronach.

When the horses parade postward for Saturday's 132nd running of the Preakness, many in the throng at Pimlico and in the national television audience will take a forlorn fleeting glimpse backward and remember what happened to Barbaro one year ago. Overshadowed by Barbaro's up-and-down struggle for survival that began when he broke down shortly after leaving the starting gate and ended when he was euthanized in January is the unsolved mystery of...